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Tourists snap a photo, oblivious to the street art by their feet.

As part of a month-long "Better Out Than In" street art residency by the elusive artist Bansky, there are two 9/11 tributes featuring the Twin Towers. A simple black painted stencil of the diminutive towers can be found in TriBeca, NY and its near twin version in Brooklyn Heights, by the fruit-street sitting area. While the "Heights Banksy" does not appear on his Instagram site (and is hence not official), many speculate that Brooklyn locale was the street artist's first choice for his tribute.

"It is not on his official site but it is the exact same stencil and it was not finished. He ended up going to TriBeca, to a quieter area, and completed the one on Instagram," said street-art enthusiast Jeff Hong.

Hong explained that for a long time street-art was considered very "rogue" and that Banksy is legitimizing the art form and engaging people in discussion.

And that's exactly what was happening in Brooklyn today. A small group had formed near the 9/11 tribute while others stood in front of the small work, snapping photos of the skyline, completely oblivious to the existence of the spray-art towers. One appreciator said, "People don't value his work until you put his name to it."

I agree. Last week a truck barreled down Court Street in Brooklyn while I was sipping a coffee in front of Starbuck's. I saw the heads of stuffed animals peeking out from the walls of the truck bed. The fluffy faces were bizarre, but I didn't give them or the truck a second thought until I realized, today, that the moving aberration was a Banksy installation. My thrill came a week late, and I admit, because I discovered the cagey street-artist was responsible for the work called "Siren of the Lambs," a slaughterhouse truck.

And boy is he having fun this month. Included in the "Better Out Than In" website is the statement, "Yesterday I set up a stall in the park selling 100% authentic original signed Banksy canvases for $60 each." Reportedly, someone had even bargained at the Central Park spray-art booth over the weekend. It is estimated that the total works sold (for way under market value) were worth about a quarter of a million dollars.

Around sundown tonight, the Brooklyn Heights Banksy, if in fact it is, was scrubbed clean off its cement canvas. Mayor said any of Banksy's works on public property would be removed. And if Bloomberg had the fruit-street work removed, then that's all the proof I need.